Prime Minister Narendra Modi today blasted the Congress manifesto for the national election, calling it as "dishonest" and full of lies as the party's leadership. "It is not a ghoshnapatra (manifesto) but a dhakosla-patra (hypocritical document)," PM Modi said, campaigning in Arunachal Pradesh.
The Congress released its manifesto on Tuesday with its chief Rahul Gandhi highlighting its focus on five big economic and social ideas including the NYAY scheme that promises Rs 72,000 a year to India's poorest families


Prime Minister says the party has damaged the morale of the security forces.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who addressed two meetings in West Bengal on Wednesday, launched a two-pronged attack on the Trinamool Congress and the Congress, targeting West Bengal’s ruling party over its remarks on the Balakot air strikes and the latter on its promise of reviewing the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).

At his first meeting at Siliguri in north Bengal, he alleged that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sitting in Kolkata felt the “same pain” after the air strikes in Balakot which was felt in Islamabad and other parts of Pakistan. “The strikes were carried out there and the pain was felt here. Neither Didi (Ms. Banerjee) nor her friends from the mahamilwat (adulteration alliance) liked it.”

Describing the Congress’s manifesto as dhakolsa patra (document of falsehood), Mr. Modi said that by promising to review the AFSPA that shielded security forces from terrorists, the Congress damaged the “morale” of the security forces and made them “helpless” in the fight against terror. Later in the day, while addressing a rally at the Brigade Parade grounds in Kolkata, he accused the Congress of “bowing to terrorism for votebank politics.”

“This chowkidar stands as a wall between the dhakolsa patra of the Congress and national security. This manifesto has come with an expiry date — May 23 (the day poll results will be announced). On that day both the Congress and its dhakolsa patra will be gone,” he said.

Trying to paint the Trinamool Congress with the same brush, the Prime Minister said the party, which was formed from the Congress, was also responsible for the same sin

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